Manchester United squad vs Leicester revealed - key names missing

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Manchester United will likely line up in a 4-3-3 for their opening fixture of the new Premier League season against Leicester City.

Jose Mourinho has something of a selection headache given the amount of injuries to his players going into the 2018/19 campaign, and the fact a lot of his team represented their respective nations at the World Cup.

Despite his exploits for Spain, David De Gea is expected to start between the sticks for United, who successfully fended off Real Madrid for his services this summer, with Los Blancos landing Thibaut Courtois from Chelsea instead.

At right-back you can expect to see a man who was apparently sold more than once in this summer's transfer in Matteo Darmian, illustrating just how short United are in defence due to injuries.

Chris Smalling and Eric Bailly - neither of whom were at the World Cup - will likely fill the centre-back positions, while the previously out-of-favour Luke Shaw is set to start left-back, due to an injury to Ashley Young.

Moving into midfielder and a number of first team players are set to be rested.